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Trump may soon offer a motherhood medal, an idea popularized in Nazi Germany (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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WTF

Edit: I wasn't sure what I was appalled by at first but now I realize it's that this fucking medal just encourages women to be treated no better than a prized heifer.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you're forgetting the marital rape, financial dependence on men, lack of choice, sexist culture and general helplessness and misery of women involved in creating the 'baby boom'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Were those new problems that didn't exist before the 50s?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Of course they did. But medical advancements have reduced infant mortality and increased life expectancy.

I think you misunderstood my point. Even with all material comforts and financial stability, what makes the original commenter think women will voluntarily choose to have children? The huge surge in population was not only because of government subsidies, but brutal repression and lack of any real choice women had. It is not natural -- it was artificially created by a system of violent repression of women.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

If it was due to reduced infant mortality then why didn't the same pattern happen from 1800 to 1880? Infant mortality dropped from about 1/3rd to 1/5th dying before their 5th birthday. Fertility rate being fairly consistent around 5 with a slight (10%) increase for a few years around 1815 before going back to around 5.

Then fertility rates nosedive from 1880 to 1935 with a temporary increase (boomers are the peak of this) before dropping down again and continuing to where we are today.

I get it, people have been treated badly throughout history and it even continues today. But that isn't the reason the boomers exist.